• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    9 months ago

    They couldn’t define “communism” then, they can’t define “socialism” now. No change.

    Oh shit. I didn’t even realize. We implemented desegregation and we’ve been a communist state ever since! Holy fuck!

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      9 months ago

      Damn, here I thought I was living in a capitalist dystopia. Truly, the race mixers pulled one over on me. Must be the mixed blood in me making me vulnerable to communist brainwashing.

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      9 months ago

      Other than it’s now these fuck’s kids were dealing with and they’ve diversified the focus their hatred a little.

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    9 months ago

    I regularly think about how many of our sweet old grandparents were among these crowds.

    How many of our doting loving grandmother’s were hurling racial slurs at the top of their lungs?

    How many grandfather’s strung up the rope for the lynch mob?

    These things ended less than a full generation ago

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      9 months ago

      If you look at the Ruby Bridges pictures you’ll see school aged kids who are still very much alive and vote like crazy. I pointed this out to my brother one day and he was totally caught off guard. And he’s a pretty smart dude, it’s just something that has been framed as “in the past” to us our whole lives by pretty much every institution. Propaganda works, very insidiously.

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        9 months ago

        The civil rights museum in Memphis,TN is amazing. What made it impactful to me is very much that. Seeing the buses, diners, the hotel, all modern things made me realize these things basically just happened. Black Americans have had a long arduous road to just exist in the country they were forced to come to. And they’re always being gaslit, told it happened long ago, didn’t happen, it wasn’t that bad etc.

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    9 months ago

    I’ve yet to see anything top “Seat belts are Communism”. I hope I live long enough to see the circle complete itself with “Capitalism is Communism”.

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    9 months ago

    Mental note, make meme, top panel, this picture and text “Race mixing is communism”

    Bottom panel, Trump in a tux with the text “Race mixing is Cultural Marxism”.

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    9 months ago

    Crazy to think that over 20 years before that, US army generals had to brief their troops that were stationed in the UK to be ready to meet black troops in the pubs

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    9 months ago

    Colorize that and it could pass as a trump rally from just yesterday.

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    9 months ago

    The guy on the right always gets me how he holds the flag. (I think this photo is cropped, I think there’s a larger one.)

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    9 months ago

    Folks like this really are goal oriented. Give them a goal, and a framework that will help them achieve it, and they will pursue it unquestionably. It must have been images like this that inspired Bukowski.

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    I might get flack for this but I don’t get the segregation thing because race is more trivial than AGAB. Usually people use AGAB to talk about health concerns. It seems race is a thing because we make it a problem.

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      I mean, race is a thing when it comes to likelihood of certain diseases and handfuls of medications affect some groups differently than others. There are legitimate differences in trends of bone structure/length/shaping. Like, even if you’re not outwardly presenting as being black, like if your family is Hispanic mixed but mostly Hispanic, sickle cell anemia is highly prevalent in the black community and you SHOULD know things like that if only for the doctor to better understand the results and tests

      Race, or at least what regions your genetic makeup best adheres to, can be important for dietary changes, as there have been some (I haven’t looked at this in a decade) minor research in regard to whether eating foods similar to genetic ancestors might help that was inconclusive (I think. Mostly, if I remember, they just found some data to suggest people who have medditeranean ancestry benefit from adding fish to their diet, but so does everyone else for the most part).

      Skin color matters for things like external medication absorption, varying levels of need for sunlight and vitamin d production. But other than that and the fringe elements above, yeah it’s mostly just a thing because we make it a thing, but we’ve made it a thing for so long it’s seemingly one of our ‘stickiest’ holdovers.